Shrook Wafa

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Shrook Wafa
Country Egypt
FIDE (2024) [a]
Born13 May 1997 (1997-05-13) (age 28)
Title Woman Grandmaster (2013)
Peak rating 2203 (June 2025)

Shrook Wafa (born 13 May 1997) [2] is an Egyptian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster.

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She won the Women's African Chess Championship in 2013. [3] Thanks to this achievement she earned the title of Woman grandmaster (WGM) [4] and qualified for the Women's World Chess Championship 2015. [5]

She has won the Women's African Chess Championship a further four times: 2014, 2016, 2019 and 2025. [6]

In the Women's World Chess Championship 2015 she was knocked out in the first round by the second seed Ju Wenjun.

Her sister Shahenda Wafa also is a Woman Grandmaster.

Notes

  1. ↑ Several Egyptian players briefly switched federations in 2024 due to FIDE suspending membership of the Egyptian Chess Federation. [1]

References

  1. ↑ "FIDE Resolution on suspending membership of Egyptian Chess Federation". March 6, 2024.
  2. ↑ Top 100 Girls May 2015 FIDE
  3. ↑ African Individual Women Chess Championship 2013 Chess-Results
  4. ↑ International Title Regulations: Table for Direct Titles FIDE
  5. ↑ FIDE World Women's Chess Championship 2015: players
  6. ↑ African Individual Chess Championships 2014 Women Chess-Results


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